Victory in Battle # 3

We’re going to continue on the subject of Victory in Battle. All of us go through battles from time to time, and we’re going to face battles in the future. How we handle those battles will determine the outcome, whether we have victory or defeat.

I. The battles that we will go through are not natural, physical battles, even though they can manifest in the natural realm. They are spiritual battles.

A.EPH 6:12

1. This Vtells us that we do Wrestleordo battleagainst Spiritual Wickedness.

B.The OT is filled with many Types and Shadows of things in the NT.

1. A Type and a Shadow is usuallysomething seen in the naturalwhich is a copy of the spiritual. (You can see that in HEB 8:5; HEB 10:1 and in COL 2:17)

2.ROM 15:4

a.The things that were written in the OT, were written for our learning.

C. We can see these same Types and Shadowsthrough Joshua’s life, and through the light of the NTwe can see how they pertain to us.

II. When Joshua1stentered into the Promised Land he faced many battles.

A.This land was promisesto the Israelites by God, butthere were still battlesbeforethey could receive the promise.

1. The same is true with us.

a.We have the promises of God, butthere is an enemy out therethat does not want us to take the land.

2.We have the promise of Prosperity, from the Word of God, but the enemy does not want to give up the land, so there is a battle.

a.What we do in the mist of that battle will determine the outcome.

A. One of the key ingredients to Joshua’s success was his courage to carry out God’s Word.

1. Courage is a part of faith. It’s seeing things through the eyes of God.

a. It takes courage to step out on God’s Word, to act on God’s Word, in the face of conflict.

a. To havebiblical “courage,” “You have to see things through the eyes of God” (how He sees things) and not through our own senses, to have Biblical Courageyou have to “be led by the H.S.andby the Word of Godand to carry out those leadings.”